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'Descriptive  (Catalogues  of 
Strawberry  //ill 


AND    OF 


Strawberry  jFiill  Sale  (Catalogues 

TOGETHER    WITH 

A    BIBLIOGRAPHY 
By  Percival  Merritt 


"BO  s  TO  :^C 


privately  printed  by  bruce  rogers 
Mdccccxv 


PREFACE 

W^ A  LP  OLE  said  in  regard  to 
his  Anecdotes  of  Painting  in 
England,  ^My  view  in  publishing  the 
Anecdotes  was^  to  assist  gentlemen  in 
discovering  the  hands  of  pidures  they 
possess;  and  lam  sufficiently  rewarded 
when  that  purpose  is  answered."* 

The  objed  of  this  present  slight  con- 
tribution to  the  general  fund  of  biblio- 
graphical information  is  somewhat  sim- 
ilar; particularly  with  regard  to  the 
bibliography  of  Strawberry  J^ill  sale 
catalogues. 

In 


t<9^    VI     "^^ 

In  library  catalogues  and  in  book- 
sellers* lists  a  Strawberry  /lill  sale  cat- 
alogue is  commonly  a  Strawberry  /lill 
sale  catalogue  and  nothing  more.  This 
is  conspicuously  so  as  to  that  portion 
of  the  sale  which  adually  occurred  at 
Strawberry  //ill.  But  to  any  colledor 
who  may  wish  to  have  an  accurate  idea 
of  what  was  offered  for  sale  and  what 
prices  were  realizjed  there  is  a  consid- 
erable choice  in  the  catalogues. 

The  following  pages  will  serve  either 
as  an  identification  of  what  such  a  col- 
lector already  possesses^  or  as  a  guide  to 
what  he  may  wish  to  possess.  Instead 
of  buttressing  each  page  with  reference 
foot-notes^  it  seems  simpler  to  make  here 
a  general  acknowledgement  of  author- 
ities. 

Quotations 


Quotations  from  Walpoles  Letters 
are  from  the  Toynbee  edition  in  sixteen 
volumes^  Oxford^  1903- 1905.  The  ac- 
count of  the  sale  at  Strawberry  J^ill 
in  1842,  and  of  the  sale  catalogues^  is 
based  on  advertisements^  correspond- 
ence  and  reports  of  the  sale  in  the  Lon- 
don Times;  on  extrads  from  the  Gen- 
tleman's Magazine,  Evening  Mail, 
and  other  contemporaneous  periodical 
publications. 
A  ny  one  who  may  be  curious  enough  to 
refer  to  the  Times  advertisements  will 
speedily  discover  that  in  many  instan- 
ces portions  of  the  advertisements  have 
simply  been  paraphrased.  This  sugges- 
tion is  offered  with  the  view  of  antici- 
pating any  possible  charge  of  plagia- 
rism^ and  also  of  accounting  for  what 

may 


c^  VIII  y^ 

may  occasionally  appear  to  be  a  peculiar 
use  of  the  English  language.  The  writer 
of  the  advertisements^  probably  the  auc- 
tioneer Robins  himself^  had  an  extraor- 
dinary flow  of  still  more  extraordinary 
verbiage,  Adual  quotations  ^  of  course^ 
are  indicated  in  the  customary  manner. 
The  bibliography  is  based  on  a  per- 
sonal examination  of  the  books  and  the 
pamphlets  themselves. 


Boston 
December  y  19 14. 


ILLUSTKATIONS 


Horace  Walpole,  Fourth  Earl  of 

Orford  ....   FRONTISPIECE 

Tho*  Lawrence  R.A.  del*  ad  viv.  1796. 
W"  Evans  sculp*  i797' 
After  a  print  presented  to  Lord  Sheffield 
by  Mary  and  Agnes  Berry. 

Ticket  of  admission  to  Strawberry  Hill 
in  1774 PAGE  X 

Copy  of  Rules  for  admission  to  Straw- 

berry  Hill 2 

Probably  first  printed  in  1784. 

Thomas  Kir  gate,  Printer  at  Straw- 
berry-Hill.  With  a  View  of  the 
Printing  House 10 

S.  Harding  ad  vivum  delin.  1794. 
A.  Birrell  sculp. 


Card  of  admission  to  the  private  view 

at  Strawberry  Hill^  March  28, 

1842.       .       .       .       ^       .       .     28 

From  a  copy  in  the  coUecStion  of  John 
Woodbury,  Esq. 

George  Robins,  the  AuBioneer,       .     36 

From  an  account  of  the  Strawberry  Hill 

sale  in  the  Illustrated  London  News  May  2 1 , 

1842. 

After  a  wood  cut  in  the  colled^ion  of  John 

Woodbury,  Esq. 

The  Sale  at  Strawberry  Hill  on  May  7, 

1842 46 

After  an  original  pen  and  ink  drawing  by 
F.  W.  Fairholt. 

May  7, 1 842  was  the  twelfth  day  of  the  sale, 
as  originally  advertised,  which  comprised 
'Specimens  of  rare  and  curious  China,  of 
almost  every  age  and  country;  ancient  Ve- 
netian Glass  b'c.  ^c' 


T^his  Ticket y  on  being  delivered  to  the 
Hou/ekeeper,   will  admit  I^r  PerfonSy 
and  no  more,  on /nt^enfhph!^  ^77^*/^.ri} 
between  Twelve  and  Threey  to  Jee  Straw-  Jrio^ 
berry- Hill,  and  will  only  ferve  Jor  the 
Day  fpecified, 

N.  B.    The  Houfe  and  Garden  are 

never  fhown  in  an  Evening ;  and  Pei-- 

Jons  are  defired  not  to  bring  Children 

'with  them. 


j!k0tt^i 


T>escRiTTive 
QATALogues 

IN  the  year  1747  Horace  Walpole 
informs  several  of  his  friends  and 
correspondents  that  he  has  taken  ^a 
Httle  new  farm — just  out  of  Twick- 
enham.' ^It  is  a  Httle  plaything-house 
that  I  have  got  out  of  Mrs.  Chenevix's 
shop,  and  is  the  prettiest  bauble  you 
ever  saw.'  He  soon  discovers  that  in 
old  leases  the  place  is  described  as 
Strawberry-Hill-Shot,  and  hence- 
forth the  name  Twickenham  disap- 
pears and  Strawberry  Hill  takes  its 

place. 


k<^ 


^      2     J 

place.  In  174.9  he  becomes  its  pro- 
prietor after  some  annoyance  and 
trouble,  for  it  was  the  property  of 
minors  and  an  AS:  of  Parliament  was 
necessary  to  permit  its  purchase. 

Now  he  proposes  ^to  build  a  little 
Gothic  castle  at  Strawberry  Hill.' 
More  land  is  acquired  and  gardens 
and  terraces  laid  out.  New  rooms, 
towers,  and  battlements  are  added  to 
the  house  from  time  to  time.  These 
additions  come  about  gradually,  as 
the  money  ^is  always  to  be  saved  out 
of  my  income,  subjecft,  too,  to  twenty 
other  whims  and  expenses.'  At  the 
same  time  his  coUeftion  of  pidures 
and  curios  is  constantly  growing, 
until  the  house  becomes  a  veritable 
museum.  Friends,  strangers,  and  for- 
eigners 


Mr,  JValpole  is  very  ready  to  oblige  any  curious  Perfons  with 
the  Sight  of  his  Iloufe  and  ColleBion ;  but  as  it  is  fituated  fo 
near  to  London  and  in  fo  populous  a  Neighbourhood^  and  as  he 
refufcs  a  Thicket  to  nobody  that  fends  for  one,  it  is  but  reafonable 
thatfuch  Perfons  as  fend ,  Jhould  comply  with  the  Rules  he  has 
been  obliged  to  lay  down  for  plowing  it. 

Any  Perfon,  fending  a  Day  or  two  before,  may  have  a  Ticket 
for  Four  Perfons  for  a  Day  certain. 

No  Ticket  will  ferve  but  on  the  Day  for  which  it  is  given. 
If  more  than  Four  Perfons  come  with  a  Ticket,  the  Houfe keeper 
has  pofitive  Orders  to  admit  none  of  them. 

Every  Ticket  will  admit  the  Company  only  between  the  Hours 
€f  Twelve  and  Three  before  Dinner,  and  only  one  Company  will 
be  admitted  on  the  fame  Day, 

The  Houfe  will  never  be  Jhown  after  Dinner ;  nor  at  all  but 
from  the  Fir  ft  of  May  to  the  Firji  of05iober. 

As  Mr,  JValpole  has  given  Offence  by  fome times  enlarging  the 
Number  of  Four,  and  refufng  that  Latitude  to  others,  he  fat » 
ters  himfelf  that  for  the  future  nobody  will  take  it  ill  that  he 
flriBly  confines  the  Number;  as  whoever  defires  him  to  break 
his  Rule,  does  in  effedl  expeB  him  to  di/oblige  others,  which  is 
what  nobody  has  a  right  Jo  defire  of  him, 

Perfons  defring  a  Ticket,  may  apply  either  to  Strawberry* 
Hill,  or  to  Mr,  Walpoles  in  Berkeley-Square,  London,  If 
any  Perfon  does  not  make  ufe  of  the  Ticket,  Mr.  JValpole  hopes 
be  fmll  have  Notice,  other  wife  he  is  prevented  from  obliging 
others  on  that  Day,  and  thence  is  put  to  great  Inconvenience, 

They  who  have  Tickets  are  defire d  not  to  bring  Children, 


^c  3  y^ 

eigners  of  distindlion  flock  to  Straw- 
berry Hill  to  see  the  house  and  its 
contents.  It  becomes  necessary  to  is- 
sue cards  of  admission,  limited  to  four 
persons,  and  a  quaint  set  of  rules  is 
formulated  prescribing  the  terms  of 
admission. 

In  1757  Walpole's  private  print- 
ing press  had  been  established;  first 
in  the  house  itself,  but  later  under  a 
roof  of  its  own.  The  natural  result  of 
the  conjundion  of  a  printing  house 
and  a  museum  of  curiosities  was  a 
descriptive  catalogue,  or  rather,  a  se- 
ries of  catalogues.  Now  cataloguing 
was  by  no  means  a  new  occupation 
for  Walpole.  In  1747,  ten  years  be- 
fore the  establishment  of  his  own 
press,  he  had  prepared  and  issued  an 

account 


c^    4    H^ 

account  of  the  celebrated  colledlion 
of  pidures  at  Houghton  Hall,  to- 
gether with  plates  of  the  house  itself. 
This  publication,  the^<^^/  Walpol- 
iance^  in  course  of  time  ran  through 
three  editions.  He  had  likewise  had 
a  share  in  the  preparation  of  cata- 
logues of  the  colleftions  of  pidures 
of  Charles  the  First,  James  the  Sec- 
ond, and  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 
His  first  attempt  at  a  catalogue  of 
Strawberry  Hill  appeared  in  1760,  in 
the  form  of  a  small  odavo  pamphlet 
of  eight  pages,  under  the  title.  Cat- 
alogue of  T^idures  and  "Drawings  in 
the  /lolbein-Chamber^  at  Strawberry - 
/lilL  The  Holbein  chamber  had  been 
completed  in  the  preceding  year. 
During  the  next  ten  years  various 

additions 


additions  were  made  to  the  house, 
and  there  were  continual  accessions 
to  the  collections  as  well. 

In  the  fall  of  1771  Walpole  wrote, 
^  after  next  summer,  by  which  time 
my  castle  and  colledion  will  be  com- 
plete (for  if  I  buy  more  I  must  build 
another  castle  for  another  collec- 
tion), I  propose  to  form  the  catalogue 
and  description.'  However  it  was 
nearly  two  years  later  when  he  an- 
nounced that  he  was  printing  his 
catalogue.  A  year  later  still,  in  July 
1774,  he  stated  that  he  had  finished 
printing  it. 

But  in  the  mean  time  two  sets  of 
advance  sheets  had  made  their  ap- 
pearance. One  was  a  small  quarto 
pamphlet  of  eighteen  pages,  *!P/(^(^r6'/, 

Curiosities^ 


t^  6  *y^ 

Curiosities^  &fc.  in  The  Cabinetof  En- 
amels and  Miniatures  ^  and  in  TheC^lass 
Cases  on  each  Side  of  it.  The  other,  a 
similar  small  quarto  of  four  pages 
only,  Curiosities  in  the  (^lass  Closet  in 
the  (^reat  Bedchamber. 

Both  are  stitched  into  the  familiar 
bluish-gray  wrappers,  with  the  title 
printed  on  the  front  cover.  Both  are 
without  date,  but  from  internal  evi- 
dence they  can  probably  be  safely 
assigned  either  to  the  last  half  of  the 
year  1773  or  to  the  first  half  of  1774. 
Each  pamphlet  has  its  own  separate 
pagination  beginning  with  page  i. 
Neither  of  them  is  cited  in  any  of  the 
regular  bibliographies  of  Strawberry 
Hill  publications.  It  seems  proper 
however  to  include  them  in  the  bib- 
liography 


liography  of  Descriptive  Catalogues, 
both  by  reason  of  the  form  in  which 
they  were  issued,  and  because  they 
are  not  unobtainable,  although  rare. 

And  now  as  to  an  item  which  does 
appear  in  various  bibliographies  of 
the  Press,  but  which  is  touched  on 
here  only  incidentally,  it  being  in- 
tended to  confine  the  bibliography 
to  such  items  as  are  adually  known 
to  exist  at  the  present  time  and  have 
been  personally  examined. 

Mr.  Austin  Dobson,  in  his  excel- 
lent bibliography  of  the  Strawberry 
Hill  Press,  refers  to,  and  Lowndes 
and  John  Martin  include,  a  Descrip- 
tion of  the  'Vi/Ia  of  flforace  Walpole^ 
small  quarto,  sixty-five  pages,  with 
a  note  that  ^this  edition  is  stated  by 

Kirgate 


c^    8    >. 

Kirgate  as  having  been  printed  only 
for  the  use  of  the  servants  in  shew- 
ing the  house.'  It  seems  doubtful 
whether  any  bibliographer  has  seen 
it.  Lowndes  assigns  a  conjedural 
date  of  1772  and  then  proceeds  to 
describe  the  1784  'Description  as  the 
third  edition  instead  of  the  second. 
Martin  gives  no  date,  which  means 
either  that  he  did  not  see  it,  since  in 
all  other  cases  he  records  the  dates, 
or  else  if  he  did  see  it,  that  it  was  not 
dated. 

In  the  sale  catalogue  of  J.  Walter 
K.  Eyton,  London  1 848,  this  item  ap- 
pears with  the  customary  statement 
attributed  to  Kirgate  but  with  the 
addition  of  a  date  of  1774.  Mr.  Eyton 
possessed  an  unusually  large  and 

complete 


^[  9  y^ 

complete  coUedion  of  Strawberry 
Hill  Press  publications  obtained,  ac- 
cording to  his  catalogue,  mainly  by 
the  purchase  of  the  ^entire  collec- 
tion of  the  late  Mr.  R.  P.  Cruden  of 
Gravesend.'  Cruden  had  been  one  of 
the  principal  buyers  of  Strawberry 
Hill  issues  at  the  sale  of  George  Baker 
in  1825;  and  Mr.  Baker  in  his  turn 
had  obtained  most  of  his  items  from 
the  colledion  of  Walpole's  printer, 
Thomas  Kirgate,  which  was  dis- 
persed in  1810. 

This  T)escription  of  sixty-five  pages 
appears,  without  date,  in  Kirgate's 
sale  catalogue,  in  Baker's  privately 
printed  List  which  was  printed  in 
December  18 10  in  an  edition  of 
twenty  copies  only,  and  in  his  sale 

catalogue 


t^       lO      ^t,J^3 

catalogue  in  1825.  With  the  Eyton 
sale  the  a6lual  copy  itself  apparently 
disappears  into  space.  Mr.  Dobson 
states  that  he  has  never  seen  it.  It  does 
not  appear  in  the  British  Museum 
Catalogue,  nor  in  the  South  Kensing- 
ton Museum  or  Princeton  University 
Library  colledions.  A  recent  request 
through  ,!A^/^/  and  Queries  for  infor- 
mation as  to  this  or  any  similar  copy 
elicited  no  response,  further  than 
that  the  Eyton  copy  was  bought  by 
Lilly  the  bookseller. 

It  seems  probable,  in  view^  of  Kir- 
gate's  statement,  that  it  was  merely 
a  set  of  sheets  taken  from  the  press 
while  the  1774  Description  was  print- 
ing, and  was  descriptive  only  of  that 
part  of  the  colledion  not  covered  by 

the 


THOMAS  JKIHOATE  , 
frcinftt  at  ^tMtobcttjj-H^. 


titHi^.^o,    r,v«. 


the  two  pamphlets,  of  eighteen  and 
four  pages  respedlively,  which  are 
cited  abo  ve.This  supposition  is  borne 
out  by  the  faft  that  deducing  from 
the  one  hundred  and  twelve  pages 
of  the  1774  Description^  (which  cover 
the  account  of  the  contents  of  the 
house),  the  introductory  matter,  the 
account  of  the  Holbein  chamber,  the 
account  of  the  Tribune,  which  com- 
prises, with  additions,  the  matter  in 
the  eighteen  page  pamphlet,  and  the 
account  of  the  Great  North  Bed- 
chamber which  comprises  the  matter 
in  the  four  page  pamphlet — a  total 
of  forty-seven  pages — exadly  sixty- 
five  pages  are  left.  This  maybe  mere- 
ly a  coincidence  but  the  conjecture 
does  not  seem  an  unreasonable  one. 

It 


It  is  possible  that  only  one  copy  of 
this  catalogue  may  have  been  pre- 
served, though  more  must  have  been 
in  existence  in  Walpole's  time  if  it 
was  intended  for  an  exhibition  cata- 
logue. Constant  use  would  doubtless 
have  soiled  and  worn  out  the  copies, 
and  they  would  probably  have  been 
destroyed  after  ftilfiUing  their  pur- 
pose. It  apparently  was  not  intended 
for  a  separate  publication,  as  appears 
to  have  been  the  case  with  the  pam- 
phlets of  eighteen  and  four  pages, 
but  as  Kirgate  seems  to  have  kept 
specimens  of  most,  if  not  all,  of  his 
work,  it  was  natural  to  find  a  copy 
in  his  coUedion. 

The  Description  of  the  Villa  of fior- 
ace  Walpole  which,  as  we  have  seen, 

was 


^  13  >^ 

was  completed  in  July  1774,  made 
its  appearance  with  Kirgate's  name 
and  the  date  1774  on  the  title  page. 
It  contained  one  hundred  and  twen- 
ty P^g^s  (last  page  blank),  but  later 
additions  under  the  headings  of 
^Appendix/  ^Additions,'  ^List  of  the 
Books,'  and  ^More  Additions,' bring 
the  total  up  to  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
eight  pages.  These  additions  were 
made  from  time  to  time  as  the  col- 
ledions  increased,  and  acquisitions 
as  late  as  1786  are  recorded,  thus 
overlapping  the  edition  of  1784  as 
first  printed. 

Walpole  proposed  having  prints  of 
his  house  and  grounds  added  to  the 
catalogue,  and  the  preparation  of 
these  prints  was  carried  on  in  a  des- 
ultory 


c^  14  yp^ 

ultory  fashion  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  1780  he  was  planning  to  take  up 
the  matter  of  completing  the  cata- 
logue and  prints  during  the  next 
summer.  Some  difficulties  were  in 
the  way,  for  so  many  additions  had 
been  made  to  the  coUedion  that  he 
found  it  would  be  necessary  to  add 
an  appendix  or  to  reprint.  In  the 
spring  of  178 1  the  plates  were  nearly 
completed,  and  the  question  of  an 
appendix  came  to  the  front.  This  he 
regarded  as  an  awkward  method 
but  thought  he  could  not  ^afford  to 
throw  away  an  hundred  copies.' 

Eventually  he  grasped  both  horns 
of  the  dilemma.  The  1774  Description 
was  brought  up  to  date  by  appen- 
dices, and  a  rearranged  and  revised 

T)efcription 


T>e5cription  of  the  Villa  of  Mr.  /lorace 
Walpole^  accompanied  by  plates^  was 
printed  and  stands  as  the  final  and 
definitive  edition.  It  appeared  with 
Kirgate's  name  on  the  title  page, 
dated  1784,  and  contained  eighty- 
eight  pages  and  twenty-seven  plates. 
Like  the  earlier  edition  it  received 
subsequent  additions,  covering  ac- 
cessions at  least  as  late  as  lygo^bring- 
ing  the  total  to  ninety-six  pages. 

The  two  editions  differ  materially 
in  size,  as  will  be  seen  fi-om  the  meas- 
urements given  in  the  bibliography, 
the  1774  edition  being  a  small  quarto 
and  the  1784  edition  a  royal  quarto. 
The  subjed  matter  of  the  ^Appen- 
dix' pages  121-145,  ^List  of  Books' 
pages  146-148,  ^Additions  since  the 

Appendix' 


t<s?^  i6  "y^ 

Appendix'pagesi49-i52,oftheearl- 
ier  edition  is  distributed  in  its  proper 
place  among  pages  1-88  of  the  later 
edition.  The  1784  edition  also  shows 
signs  of  some  re-cataloguing  and  of 
rearrangement  in  different  parts  of 
the  house  of  the  various  articles  de- 
scribed. 

Pages  153-158  of  the  1774  edition, 
headed  ^ More  Additions/  are  iden- 
tical in  subjeft  matter  and  plan  of  ar- 
rangement with  pages  89-92  of  the 
1784  edition,  which  appear  there 
under  the  heading  of  ^Appendix'; 
while  pages  93-96  of  the  final  edi- 
tion comprise  acquisitions  after  1786 
which  do  not  appear  in  the  earlier 
edition  in  any  form. 

The  absence  from  a  copy  of  the 

'Description 


Description  of  some,  or  even  all,  of 
the  various  appendices  included  in 
pages  12 1- 15 8  of  the  earlier  and  in 
pages  89-96  of  the  later  edition,  by 
no  means  indicates  an  imperfect  copy 
but  merely  an  uncompleted  copy. 
That  is,  it  was  probably  perfed:  when 
issued;  for  undoubtedly  some  copies 
of  the  catalogues  found  their  way 
into  the  hands  of  Walpole's  friends 
from  time  to  time,  although  in  lim- 
ited numbers. 

The  copy  of  the  1784  edition  from 
which  the  description  in  the  bibli- 
ography is  mainly  drawn  does  not 
contain  pages  93-96,  the  collation 
being  completed  from  another  copy. 
Walpole's  own  statement  as  to  his 
publications  showing  ^all  the  beau- 

tiftil 


i^^     I  8     ]t^>^ 

tiful  negligence  of  a  gentleman'  can 
well  be  applied  to  these  catalogues. 
The  T)escription  opens  with  a  brief 
account  of  Strawberry  Hill  and  then 
describes  the  various  rooms  in  the 
house  and  some  of  the  buildings  in 
the  grounds.  The  contents  of  the 
rooms — pidlires,  furniture,  curios, 
etc. — are  enumerated,  and  in  many 
cases  a  history  of  the  articles  is  giv- 
en, or  the  way  in  which  they  were 
acquired  is  told.  Sometimes  an  elabo- 
rate account  is  given,  and  occasion- 
ally a  few  lines  of  verse  by  Walpole 
are  found,  either  relating  to  the  arti- 
cles described  or  to  their  donor.  A 
rather  inaccurate  list  of  the  books 
printed  at  Strawberry  Hill  is  also  in- 
cluded. 

As 


^[  19  ]^ 

As  already  stated  Walpole's  orig- 
inal plan  seems  to  have  been  to  have 
prints  of  the  house  prepared,  which 
should  be  added  to  the  1774  edition. 
But  the  work  of  preparation  progres- 
sed very  slowly,  and  as  late  as  1780 
apparently  seven  plates  only  had 
been  finished.  When  he  finally  de- 
cided to  reprint  the  catalogue  he 
seems  to  have  abandoned  his  first 
plan,  and  to  have  had  the  illustra- 
tions completed  solely  for  the  1784 
edition.  In  faft  many  of  the  plates, 
on  account  of  their  size,  were  hardly 
adapted  to  the  first  edition  with  the 
possible  exception  of  the  six  large- 
paper  copies. 

By  July  1784,  at  which  time  the  new 
edition  was  probably  going  through 

the 


the  press,  he  had  come  to  refer  to  the 
earHer  one  as  a  ^very  imperfeft  Ust,' 
which  ^  was  printed  several  years  ago, 
but  was  suppressed.'  It  is  probably 
safe  to  assume  that  any  copy  of  the 
1774  edition  containing  prints  must 
be  regarded  only  as  an  extra  illustra- 
ted copy.  In  Baker's  sale  catalogue  a 
copy  is  listed  with  plates,  the  num- 
ber not  stated,  but  from  an  accom- 
panying note  they  seem  to  have  been 
proofs  of  only  a  few  of  the  prints 
which  were  probably  laid  into  this 
copy.'' 

Walpole's  attitude  towards  these 
two  catalogues  is  somewhat  curious, 
and  different  from  his  treatment  of 
the  other  publications  from  his  press. 
Commonly  the  books  were  either 

given 


t^[]    21    ]t<^ 

given  away  or  else  sold  by  Dodsley 
or  some  other  book-seller.  But  the 
two  catalogues  were  held  back.  The 
Reverend  William  Cole  had  received 
a  copy  of  the  first,  which  caused  some 
annoyance  later  by  passing  into  the 
hands  of  a  dealer  after  Cole's  death. 
Sir  Horace  Mann  undoubtedly  had  a 
copy  of  the  second,  but  he  was  in  Flo- 
rence, a  safe  distance  from  London. 
A  copy  was  reftised  in  1787  to  Lord 
Ossory  who  usually  received  all  the 
Strawberry  Hill  publications.  Wal- 
pole  explains  to  Lady  Ossory  his  re- 
fusal of  the  T)escription  by  writing 
that  ^though  printed,  I  have  entirely 
kept  it  up,  [/>.held  it  back]  and  mean 
to  do  so  while  I  live,  for  very  sound 
reasons.'  His  justification  is  that  he 

is 


c^?£^    22    Jt<5>^ 

is  ^so  tormented  by  visitors,  that  two 
or  three  rooms  are  not  shown  to  a- 
bridge  their  stay.'  Also,  the  enamels 
and  miniatures  were  kept  under  lock 
and  key  and  if  visitors  had  access  to 
the  catalogue  and  knew  of  their  ex- 
istence they  would  insist  on  seeing 
and  handling  them. 

This  statement  tends  to  confirm 
the  conjedure  as  to  the  catalogue  of 
sixty-five  pages.  The  enamels,  min- 
iatures, etc.,  which  were  kept  locked 
up,  were  in  that  portion  of  the  house 
described  in  the  eighteen  and  four 
page  pamphlets.  Since  it  was  desired 
to  preserve  these  curiosities  from 
visitors'  insped:ion,  the  natural  me- 
thod was  to  omit  their  description 
from  the  Exhibition  Catalogue. 

Possibly 


Possibly  there  was  another  sub- 
conscious reason  for  holding  back 
the  "Description  which  Walpole  hints 
at  half-jestingly  to  Hannah  More  in 
1790.  He  had  bought  pidures  and 
curiosities  and  had  hoarded  baubles 
^that  in  truth  I  cannot  keep  long,  but 
that  will  last  for  ever  in  my  cata- 
logue, and  make  me  immortal!' 

When  and  how  the  catalogues  did 
become  distributed  can  only  be  con- 
jeftured.  At  the  time  of  the  dispersal 
of  the  contents  of  Strawberry  Hill 
in  1842,  only  a  few  copies  appear  in 
the  sale  catalogue.  In  an  obituary 
notice  which  appeared  in  the  (jen- 
tleman's  Magazine  immediately  after 
Walpole's  death  it  is  stated  that  a  cat- 
alogue of  Strawberry  Hill  had  been 

drawn 


«u^[|    24    ]t<^ 

drawn  up  and  printed  in  1774,  and 
reserved  as  a  bequest  to  his  particu- 
lar friends  after  his  death.  This  no- 
tice, however,  was  not  conspicuous 
for  its  accuracy  so  far  as  it  related  to 
Strawberry  Hill  publications. 

Still  the  statement  receives  a  cer- 
tain measure  of  confirmation  from 
the  remarks  of  Miss  Berry  in  her  pre- 
face to  77?^  Works  of/Iorace  Walpole^ 
EarlofOrford^  in  five  volumes,  Lon- 
don 1798,  which  included  the  T)e- 
scription  of  Strawberry -J^ilL 

She  says:  ^the  Catalogue  and  De- 
scription of  Strawberry-Hill  has  been 
hitherto  in  the  hands  of  those  only  to 
whom  lord  Orford  bequeathed  the 
few  copies  which  he  had  himself 
printed  there.' 

Probably 


HI  25  >^ 

Probably  this  can  not  be  taken  very 
literally  as  the  ^fewcopies'  amounted 
to  three  hundred  in  round  numbers, 
and  it  does  not  seem  likely  that  the 
only  method  of  distribution  was 
through  Lord  Orford's  will.  As  a 
matter  of  fad:  an  examination  of  the 
will  fails  to  show  any  specific  refer- 
ence whatsoever  to  the  T)efcripnon. 

In  a  codicil  executed  only  a  few 
months  before  his  death  he  bequeath- 
ed to  the  Misses  Berry  and  to  their 
father  a  carefully  described  wooden 
box  containing  ^all  such  of  my  own 
Literary  works  as  have  been  hereto- 
fore published,  or  have  been  printed, 
or  still  remain  in  Manuscript.' 

Full  authority  was  given  to  the 
Berrys  to  publish  the  works,  which 

resulted 


resulted  in  the  appearance  in  1798 
of  the  five  volumes  referred  to  above. 
Their  nominal  editor  was  Robert 
Berry,  but  the  adual  editor  w^as  his 
daughter  Mary,  Walpole's  favorite. 
It  is  possible  that  he  may  have  left 
instruftions  with  Miss  Berry  as  to 
the  disposal  which  he  wished  to  have 
made  of  the  catalogues,  but  this  can 
only  be  a  matter  of  conjecture.* 
In  the  preface  to  the  T>escription  of 

*  Since  this  paragraph  was  written  there  has 
been  kindly  sent  over  for  inspection,  by  Mr. 
James  Tregaskis,  the  antiquarian  book-seller 
of  232  High  Holborn,  London,  a  colledlion 
of  extra-illustrated  Strawberry  Hill  sale  cata- 
logues formed  by  T.  Crofton  Croker.  In  this 
colled:ion  there  appears  a  manuscript  list  en- 
titled, *A  list  of  persons  to  whom  the  'Descrip- 
tion of  Strawberry  Hill  ^2i's,  bequeathed  by  Lord 
Orford.*  The  list  comprises  the  names  of  sev- 

1784 


^  27  ]^ 

1784  Walpole  wrote  that  it  was  not 
intended  for  public  sale  and  origi- 
nally was  designed  only  as  ameans  of 
assistance  to  those  who  visited  the 
place.  He  added  also  that  the  account 
of  the  pidures  and  curiosities  was 
given  with  a  view  to  their  future  dis- 
persion. And  he  refleded  that  ^some 
transient  pleasure  may  even  here- 
after arise  to  the  peruser  of  this  cata- 
logue.' 

enty-eight  persons  and  two  libraries.  Against 
fifteen  of  the  names  the  word  'dead*  is  written. 
No  source  or  authority  is  given  for  this  list. 

As  has  been  stated  above,  no  reference  what- 
soever to  the  T)escription  can  be  found  in  Wal- 
pole's  will,  proved  in  1797,  but  the  existence 
of  this  list  of  names  may  serve  as  a  partial  con- 
firmation of  the  conjedure  that  instructions 
regarding  the  disposal  of  the  catalogues  might 
have  been  left  with  Miss  Berry  by  Walpole. 

Evidently 


Evidently  the  thought  had  long 
been  present  in  his  mind  of  the  final 
disposal,  not  only  of  his  books,  but 
also  of  the  curiosities  which  he  had 
so  eagerly  colleded.  Fifteen  years  be- 
fore his  death,  even  then  feeling  the 
approach  of  old  age,  he  vv^rote  ^I  have 
little  time  left  to  enjoy  any  thing, 
and  w^ho  knows  what  will  become 
of  Strawberry,  and  how  soon  it  may 
be  put  up  to  auction  ?' 

More  than  half  acentury  passed  by, 
however,  before  this  question  was 
answered. 


SALS  cATALogues 


AT  Walpole's  death  in  the  year 
1797  Strawberry  Hill  was  left 
to  his  great-niece  Laura,  Dowager 
Countess  Waldegrave,  and  her  heirs, 
but  with  the  right  of  life  tenancy 
to  Mrs.  Anne  Seymour  Darner,  the 
daughter  of  Walpole's  cousin  Gen- 
eral Conway.  Mrs.  Darner  occupied 
Strawberry  Hill  until  181 1  when  she 
relinquished  it  to  the  heiress.  Lady 
Waldegrave.  In  1835  Lady  Walde- 
grave's  grandson,  George,  had  suc- 
ceeded 


ceeded  to  the  title  as  seventh  Earl, 
and  to  the  possession  of  Strawberry 
Hill. 

On  May  31st  1841,  there  appeared 
in  the  Times  a  brief  notice  from  the 
well-known  auftioneer  George  Rob- 
ins to  the  effed  that  he  had  been  in- 
strufted  to  sell  by  auftion  the  ^mag- 
nificent contents'  of  Strawberry  Hill, 
^the  renowned  seat  of  the  Earl  of 
Waldegrave.'  This  was  followed  one 
week  later  by  an  elaborate  announce- 
ment of  the  forthcoming  sale  which 
was  to  be  held  on  Monday,  July  19 
and  the  twenty  following  days.  It 
was  stated  that  a  detailed  catalogue 
was  in  process  of  preparation,  which 
would  be  ready  fourteen  days  before 
the  sale,  at  the  price  of  two  shillings, 

sixpence 


^  3^  IH^ 
sixpence  each.  On  June  14  Mr.  Rob- 
ins announced  that  the  sale  at  Straw- 
berry Hill  was  of  necessity  delayed, 
in  consequence  of  the  approaching 
dissolution  of  Parliament,  but  that 
he  would  not  fail  to  give  the  earliest 
information  to  the  public  when  the 
audion  would  take  place.  This  dis- 
solution of  Parliament  was  brought 
about  by  the  fall  of  the  Melbourne 
ministry  on  account  of  the  Corn-Law 
agitation.  One  of  the  minor  efFecfts 
was  the  postponement  of  a  number 
of  auction  sales  until  a  more  favor- 
able opportunity  offered. 

A  portion  of  Robins'  announce- 
ment at  this  time  is  worth  reproduc- 
ing as  a  specimen  of  his  florid  style. 
He  continues  his  statement  that  he 

will 


will  give  early  notice  to  those  inter- 
ested, as  to  when  the  deferred  sale 
will  occur,  by  saying  that  he  contents 
'himself  at  present  by  premising  that 
a  constellation  of  all  that  is  recher- 
che and  unequalled  as  an  ensemble 
throughout  the  world  will  well  re- 
ward them  for  the  disappointment 
occasioned  by  the  necessity  for  this 
postponement.' 

Nothing  more  is  heard  from  Rob- 
ins on  this  subjeft  until  February  7, 
1842  when  a  brief  preliminary  adver- 
tisement again  appears  in  the  Times 
stating  that  'Mr.  George  Robins  is 
honoured  by  having  been  seleded  by 
the  Earl  of  Waldegrave  to  sell  by  pub- 
lic competition,  on  Monday,  April 
25,  and  twenty-four  following  days 

(Sundays 


HI  33  3^ 

(Sundays  excepted),  the  contents  of 
Strawberry  Hill.'  Two  weeks  later  a 
more  detailed  advertisement  follows 
in  which  reference  is  made  to  a  ^cata- 
logue raisonne.'  It  is  promised  that 
the  reader  will  be  gratified  with  a 
faithful  report  of  the  curiosities  at 
Strawberry  Hill  in  the  catalogue, 
which  will  be  adorned  with  a  portrait 
of  Horace  Walpole  ^and  illustrated 
by  six  drawings  on  wood  by  the  in- 
imitable Cruikshank/ 

Unfortunately  one  part  of  this  pro- 
je<9:  was  not  carried  out,  for  on  March 
14th  Robins  announces  that  the  six 
drawings  will  be  ^executed  by  W.  A. 
Delamotte,  Esq.'  He  states  that  the 
catalogues  will  be  ready  March  28th, 
that  there  will  be  a  private  view  at 

Strawberry 


^C  34  >» 

Strawberry  Hill  on  that  day,  and  that 
the  public  will  be  admitted  on  April 
4th.  Examination  of  the  catalogue 
speedily  reveals  the  fad  that  the 
drawings  were  indeed  ^executed'  by 
Delamotte  and  increases  the  regret 
that  the  original  plan  of  Cruikshank 
illustrations  was  not  carried  out.  As  a 
matter  of  fad  the  woodcuts,  eleven  in 
number,  which  appear  in  the  ^Prefa- 
tory Remarks'  to  the  catalogue  were 
evidently  taken,  together  with  the 
body  of  the  ^Remarks,'  from  an  ar- 
ticle by  Dudley  Costello,  entitled 
'Strawberry  Hill'  which  appeared  in 
the  March,  1842,  number  oi^Ains- 
worth's  Miscellany. 

In  addition  Delamotte  supplied  a 
design  for  the  cover  of  the  catalogue 

and 


^  35  ]^ 
and  another  more  elaborate  one  for 
the  half  title,  into  both  of  which  he 
worked  details  which  were  intended 
to  represent  some  of  the  more  nota- 
ble curiosities  of  the  colledion.  The 
design  on  the  cover  was  also  used, 
with  a  change  in  the  letter-press,  as  a 
card  of  admission  to  Strawberry  Hill 
for  the  private  view. 

An  advertisement  on  March  28th 
announces  that  the  catalogues  are 
ready  for  distribution,  and  one  on  the 
following  day  states  that  the  ^cata- 
logue raisonne  is  at  length  complet- 
ed.' This  advertisement  also  adds 
that  ^there  will  be  two  hundred  cat- 
alogues in  the  second  edition  (to  be 
ready  next  week),  printed  on  large 
paper,  the  price  12/.,  and  Mr.  Robins 

flatters 


^C  36  ]^ 

flatters  himself  and  is  inclined  to 
hope  the  patrons  of  the  fine  arts  will 
preserve  this  catalogue  as  a  valuable 
memento  of  the  name  and  imper- 
ishable fame  of  Horace  Walpole,  to 
hand  it  dow^n  to  future  generations.' 
It  refers  to  the  woodcuts  as  ten  in 
number  and  mentions  the  half  title. 
The  small  paper  editions  were  pub- 
lished at  seven  shillings. 

The  catalogue  brought  forth  a  va- 
riety of  criticism  and  comment.  It 
was  called  a  ^remarkable  document' 
and  regarded  as  ^not  amongst  the 
least  of  the  curiosities'  of  the  sale.  A 
letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Times  be- 
gins, 'the  long  expected  catalogue, 
than  which,  perhaps,  a  more  incor- 
red  piece  of  typography  never  left 

the 


GEORGE    ROBINS 


^  37  y^ 

the  press,  announces'  etc.  On  the  oc- 
casion of  the  first  day's  sale  Robins 
repHed  to  the  critics  and  gave  fur- 
ther cause  of  offence  when  he  ^chal- 
lenged the  rivalry  of  persons  better 
acquainted  with  the  names  of  au- 
thors and  books,  and  professed  his 
ability  to  produce  as  corred:  a  cata- 
logue as  Mr.  Evans,  of  Pall  Mall.' 

Notwithstanding  its  inaccuracies 
the  call  for  the  catalogue  was  con- 
siderable. The  supply  at  the  house 
was  exhausted  before  the  day  of  the 
public  view  and  a  number  of  editions 
or  issues  were  brought  out  in  quick 
succession.  From  contemporaneous 
statements  it  seems  probable  that 
over  four  thousand  copies  were  dis- 
tributed before  the  beginning  of  the 

sale. 


sale.  The  Evening  Mail^  which  took 
a  very  cynical  view  of  the  whole  pro- 
ceeding, said,  ^a  vast  number  of  cata- 
logues have  been  sold;  indeed,  more 
than,  we  believe,  on  any  former  oc- 
casion.' 

On  Monday,  April  i8th,  in  a  Times 
advertisement  (dated  April  16)  of  the 
first  six  days  of  the  sale,  April  25-30, 
covering  the  books,  the  public  was 
notified  that  ^  correal  catalogues  of 
this  portion  of  the  sale  will  be  ready 
on  and  after  Monday  for  distribution 
gratis  to  booksellers,  and  to  the  pub- 
lic 6t^.  each  only,  which  will  also  ad- 
mit the  bearer  to  the  auftion.'  The 
same  advertisement  in  the  Times  of 
April  25  has  a  slight  variation  at  the 
end  and  states  that  the  catalogue  will 

^  admit 


HI  39  y^ 

^admit  the  bearer  to  the  auction,  dur- 
ing the  book  sale.^ 

This  would  seem  to  imply  that  a 
limited  catalogue  of  the  book  sale 
only  (the  first  six  days)  was  issued  at 
a  reduced  price.  In  the  course  of  an 
examination  of  the  catalogues  and  of 
descriptions  of  them  in  booksellers' 
lists,  covering  a  period  of  a  number 
of  years,  no  trace  of  such  a  catalogue 
has  ever  been  found.  It  would  hard- 
ly be  safe  to  assume  that  specimens  of 
the  catalogue  do  not  exist,  though, 
by  reason  of  being  a  partial  catalogue 
only,  it  would  have  been  less  likely  to 
have  been  preserved.  It  seems  wiser 
to  preserve  an  open  mind  on  the  sub- 
jed,  pending  the  possible  appear- 
ance of  a  copy. 

As 


t<^   40   Jt<?^ 

As  the  sale  was  originally  adver- 
tised, the  seventh  and  eighth  days 
were  to  be  devoted  to  the  large  col- 
leftion  of  prints  which  Walpole  had 
possessed.  Many  objeftions  having 
been  made  to  the  sale  of  the  prints  in 
their  badly  catalogued  and  jumbled- 
up  condition,  it  was  announced,  also 
on  April  i8th,  that  they  had  been 
withdrawn  for  a  separate  sale  which 
would  be  held  in  London  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  sale  at  Strawberry  Hill. 
A  'very  elaborate  catalogue  of  this 
portion  only'  was  in  course  of  prep- 
aration and  would  be  ready  for  de- 
livery on  May  loth. 

The  re-cataloguing  of  the  prints 
was  entrusted  to  the  veteran  audion- 
eer  and  printseller  Thomas  Dodd, 

who 


who  was  referred  to  by  the  Times  as  ^  a 
gentleman  well  qualified  for  such  a 
task.'  The  original  cataloguing  had 
been  the  work  of  Samuel  Woodburne 
to  whom  Robins,  in  the  ^Prefatory 
Remarks,'  had  expressed  his  ac- 
knowledgements ^for  his  luminous 
observations  on  the  coUedion  of  En- 
gravings.' 

On  May  2nd  Mr.  Robins  had  «the 
honour  to  announce,  that  in  obedi- 
ence to  very  many  pressing  applica- 
tions, he  has  in  deference  to  public 
opinion  had  a  second  edition  of  the 
large  paper  copies  printed,  the  first 
having  been  eagerly  and  quickly 
sought  after  by  those  who  feel  anx- 
ious to  possess  a  sterling  reminiscence 
of  the  splendid  museum  at  Straw- 
berry 


berry  Hill,  to  enable  them  to  hand 
down  to  the  latest  posterity  a  proud 
record  of  the  imperishable  fame, 
demonstrated  by  the  assiduity,  the 
overpowering  talent,  and  untiring 
devotion  to  the  arts  which  was  mani- 
fested during  a  period  extending  over 
sixty  years  by  Horace  Walpole.  The 
fifth  edition  of  the  smaller  size  is  now 
in  course  of  distribution  at  Straw- 
berry Hill,  and  in  Covent  Garden.' 
If,  as  seems  probable,  the  two  cata- 
logues mentioned  in  this  advertise- 
ment are  the  ones  described  in  the 
bibliography  as  VI .  and  VII.,  which 
certainly  were  the  last  to  be  issued 
covering  the  twenty-four  days  sale, 
a  rather  curious  condition  is  shown. 
By  May  2nd  the  portion  of  the  sale 

including 


HI  43  y^ 

including  the  books, — the  first  six 
days, — had  already  been  completed, 
and  yet  these  two  catalogues  contain 
the  most  detailed  and  accurate  de- 
scription of  the  books,  carried  out 
more  fully  than  in  any  of  the  other 
catalogues. 

Possibly  this  fad  may  throw  some 
light  on  the  question  of  the  limited 
catalogue  referred  to  above.  For  curi- 
ously enough,  in  setting  up  the  first 
six  days  in  VI.  and  VII.  two  different 
fonts  of  type  were  employed,  one 
similar  to  that  used  in  the  earlier  cat- 
alogues and  the  other  a  heavy  faced 
type  whose  presence  is  very  notice- 
able, even  in  a  casual  glance  at  the 
page.  It  seems  to  have  been  employed 
indiscriminately  and  without  any 

definite 


HI  44  IH^ 

definite  plan  and  may  simply  have 
come  about  through  a  shortage  of 
type.  It  does  not  appear  at  all  after 
the  sixth  day. 

Now  it  seems  possible  that  the  first 
six  days  of  these  catalogues,  with 
their  extended  descriptions  and  type 
anomalies,  represent  the  ^corre6l  cat- 
alogue' distributed  to  booksellers 
gratis  and  sold  at  6d.  to  the  public; 
that  after  serving  its  purpose  at  the 
sale  of  the  books,  either  additional 
impressions  were  run  off,  or  over- 
sheets  utilized  and  bound  up  with 
the  sheets  already  printed  for  the  last 
sixteen  days,  and  then  issued  as  the 
second  large  paper  and  fifth  small 
paper  editions  referred  to  in  the  May 
2nd  advertisement. 

By 


HI  45  y^ 

By  this  means  the  shrewd  audlion- 
eer  would  have  been  able  to  supply 
the  popular  demand,  utilize  over- 
sheets,  and  obtain  12/.  and  7/.  respec- 
tively to  recoup  himself  for  the  earli- 
er distribution  gratuitously  to  dealers 
and  at  6d.  to  the  public.  A  slight  mea- 
sure of  confirmation  may  be  given 
to  this  theory  from  the  fa<3:  that  all 
the  sale  catalogues  were  printed  by 
Messrs.  Smith  and  Robins,  King  St. 
Long  Acre.  These  two  issues  seem 
finally  to  have  appeased  the  popular 
demand  for  catalogues,  for  on  May 
30th  ^it  is  respedfully  announced, 
that  of  the  fifth  and  last  edition  of 
the  small  paper  copies  there  are  near- 
ly one  hundred  left,  and  of  the  large 
paper  copies  about  thirty.' 

Whatever 


t^    46   ]t^>^ 

whatever  may  have  been  the  mer- 
its or  defeds  of  the  catalogues,  pub- 
He  curiosity  was  strongly  direfted 
tov^ards  Strawberry  Hill  during  the 
month  of  April  1842.  It  was  stated 
that  eighteen  thousand  persons  had 
already  visited  the  colledion  during 
the  first  fifteen  days  of  the  public 
view,  and  later  on  it  was  asserted  that 
more  than  fifty  thousand  persons  had 
been  ^attrafted  to  this  repertory  of 
art  and  bijouterie,during  the  present 
view  of  Strawberry-hill,  which  con- 
tinues daily,  even  during  the  sale.'  To 
accommodate  the  attendance  at  the 
sale  a  temporary  gable-roofed  build- 
ing was  erefted  on  the  grounds  at 
StrawberryHill,adjoiningthe  house, 
^seventy-five  feet  in  length,  forty  feet 

wide. 


^^  M  utA^oi^-ryy    ^(U( 


■frry 


ac^i^jHz.  9'-i^.9^dAH/- 


^  47  >^ 
wide,  and  about  seventeen  feet  in 
heighth  to  the  tye-beams  or  level, 
with  an  additional  ten  feet  to  the 
point  of  the  gable.' 

The  collection  of  prints  was  ready 
for  inspection  at  the  aucSlioneer's 
rooms  in  Covent  Garden  on  June  6 
and  the  sale  took  place  there,  'June 
13  and  the  nine  following  days  (Sun- 
day excepted).'  Here  again  Robins' 
inaccuracy  is  clearly  manifested,  as 
in  the  public  advertisements  the  sale 
was  constantly  referred  to  as  a  twelve 
days  sale,  notwithstanding  the  state- 
ment to  the  contrary  on  the  title  page 
of  the  catalogue  and  the  internal  evi- 
dence of  the  advertisements  them- 
selves. Of  the  ten  days  sale  catalogue, 
the  'very  elaborate'  one,  which  rep- 
resented 


HI  48  >^ 

resented  the  seventh  and  eighth  days 
of  the  original  cataloguej  apparently 
only  one  edition,  on  small  paper,  was 
issued. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  sales  two 
lists  of  ^Names  of  purchasers  and  the 
prices'  were  published  under  the  title 
oi'zAedes Strawberrianae^xki^  first  giv- 
ing the  prices,  by  lots,  of  the  twenty- 
four  days  sale  at  Strawberry  Hill,  as 
originally  advertised,  and  the  second 
of  the  ten  days  sale  at  Covent  Gar- 
den. 

Singularly  enough,  in  the  first  price 
list,  when  the  seventh  and  eighth 
days  are  reached,  'the  names  of  the 
purchasers  to  the  lots  as  originally 
formed,  and  the  prices  produced  at 
the  more  detailed  sale,  are  here  ar- 
ranged 


^  49  y^ 

ranged  as  if  really  sold  at  the  first 
sale.' This  is  rather  a  remarkable  per- 
formance and  it  probably  would  not 
stand  too  close  a  scrutiny,  but  at  all 
events,  in  the  final  tabulation  of  the 
results  of  the  sale  by  days  the  total 
proceeds  of  the  seventh  and  eighth 
days,  corresponding  to  the  ten  days 
sale,  are  carried  in  corredly.  It  may 
be  said  in  passing  that  the  total  pro- 
duce of  the  sale  was  c£33,45o.  ii/. 

One  pamphlet  of  interest  to  Straw- 
berry Hill  coUeftors  appeared  as  an 
aftermath  of  the  much  criticised 
catalogue, — the  little  sketch  attri- 
buted to  T.  Crofton  Croker,  entitled 
(gooseberry  f^alL  It  comprises  eight 
leaves  and  is  a  parody  on  the  title 

page, 


page,  conditions  of  sale,  and  what  the 
author  designates  as  ^Puffatoiy  Re- 
marks,' of  the  Strawberry  Hill  cata- 
logue. 

In  the  accompanying  bibliography 
an  attempt  has  been  made  to  differ- 
entiate the  various  editions  or  issues 
of  the  sale  catalogues  and  to  show  the 
chronological  order  in  which  they 
probably  appeared.  It  is  based  on  the 
examination  and  comparison  of  a 
considerable  number  of  copies  of  the 
catalogues. 

It  is  difficult  to  say  whether  there 
were  adually  five  separate  editions 
of  the  small  paper  copies,  as  Robins' 
advertisement  would  seem  to  imply. 
Five  issues,  differing  more  or  less 
radically,  can  easily  be  identified, 

and 


^  51  ]^ 
and  also  the  two  large  paper  editions. 
The  catalogue  listed  as  I.  is  clearly 
the  first  issue.  It  has  been  called  the 
^Dunciad'  and  also  the  ^bastard'  cat- 
alogue but  perhaps  the  best  desig- 
nation is  that  of  a  writer  in  tht  A  ihe- 
ncBum  in  184.2  who  terms  it  the  ^first 
and  worst  edition.'  The  title  page 
states  that  ^the  Catalogue  (at  7/  each) 
will  admit  Four  Persons  to  the  Pub- 
lic View,  and  be  a  passport  to  the  Pur- 
chaser throughout  the  Sale;  they  may 
be  had  at  "Galignani's  Journal"  in 
Paris;  of  Mr.I.  A.G.  Weigel,  of  Leip- 
sic;  at  Strawberry  Hill;  at  the  Auc- 
tion Mart  and  at  Mr.  George  Robins' 
Offices,  Covent  Garden.'  On  the  last 
page  a  note  appears,  to  the  effed  that 
^some  inaccuracies  will  be  discov- 
ered 


^  52  >^ 

ered  in  the  Catalogue,  arising  from  a 
want  of  sufficient  time  for  its  exami- 
nation,' etc.  These  errors  were  to  be 
'carefully  redified  in  the  Second  Ed- 
ition/ a  small  portion  of  which  was 
to  be  printed  on  large  paper. 

Number  II.  has  the  same  note  on 
the  last  page  but  these  additional 
words  on  the  title-page,  'a  few  copies 
are  printed  on  large  paper  at  12/. 
each.'  It  corresponds  quite  closely  to 
I., though  occasionally  it  shows  signs 
of  recataloguing  in  isolated  titles. 
The  most  conspicuous  difference  is 
that  the  tenth  day's  sale  comprises 
four  more  lots  than  in  I.,  or  156  as 
against  152. 

Number  III .  has  the  note  on  the  last 
page  and  the  title  page  agrees  with 

XL, 


HI  53  >^ 
IL,  but  it  shows  further  signs  of  re- 
cataloguing.  At  least  sixteen  pages 
differ  from  I.  and  II.  in  the  number 
of  lots  on  the  page.  The  twelfth  day's 
sale  has  seven  additional  lots.  The 
heading  ^Miscellaneous'  at  the  top 
of  page  130  in  I.  and  II.  disappears 
and  is  not  met  with  again.  There  is 
also  a  curious  error  in  signature  DD, 
doubtless  arising  from  the  printer's 
carelessness  in  arranging  the  form. 
The  first  page  of  the  nineteenth 
day's  sale  precedes  the  last  page  of 
the  eighteenth  day.  The  text  is  trans- 
posed although  the  pagination  runs 
on  correftly. 

Number  IV.  is  the  first  large  paper 
edition,  apparently  at  first  glance  the 
same  issue  as  V.  which  is  on  small  pa- 
per. 


HI  54  >^ 

per.  It  agrees  with  the  latter  in  cata- 
loguing more  lots  on  eight  out  of  the 
twenty-four  days  than  the  preceding 
catalogues.  It  has  inserted  pages  53* 
and  54*  as  does  V.  On  the  other  hand, 
and  particularly  in  the  first  six  days 
sales,  comprising  the  books,  IV.  a- 
grees  more  frequently  with  the  three 
earlier  catalogues  than  with  V.  But 
it  has  one  feature  in  which  it  differs 
from  all  the  other  catalogues :  insert- 
ed pages  67*  and  68  *,  comprising,  to- 
gether with  a  dozen  additional  lines 
on  page  68,  twenty-seven  lots,  un- 
related to  Walpole,  which  were  not 
sold  at  the  sale  at  all.  In  IV.  and  V.  the 
note  on  the  last  page  has  disappeared. 
The  title  page  of  V.  is  similar  to  that 
of  II.,  III.,  VI.,  and  VII.,  while  that 

of 


^  55  y^ 

of  IV.  differs  from  all  others  in  read- 
ing, 'The  Catalogue  (at  12/.)  will  ad- 
mit Four  Persons/  etc. 

Numbers  VI.  and  VII.  which  are 
small  and  large  paper  issues  respec- 
tively seem  to  agree  with  each  other 
throughout.They  represent  a  real  re- 
cataloguing  of  the  first  six  days.  Pal- 
pable errors  are  correded  and  the 
the  various  lots  catalogued  at  much 
greater  length,  so  that  the  matter 
ending  on  page  67  in  I.,  II.,  and  III., 
and  on  page  68  in  V.,  is  expanded  to 
eighty-six  pages  in  VI.  and  VII. 

The  seventh  and  eighth  days  are 
omitted  entirely  and  the  catalogue 
continues  with  the  ninth  day.  In  its 
accuracy  as  to  titles  V.  corresponds 
more  closely  with  VI.  and  VII.  than 

with 


HI  56  >^ 

with  its  predecessors,  which  will  ac- 
count for  the  position  assigned  to  it 
in  the  bibliography.  It  is,  on  the 
whole,  the  best  single  catalogue  for 
purposes  of  reference  to  the  entire 
twenty-four  days,  but  VI.  and  VIII. 
together  furnish  the  most  complete 
account  of  the  whole  coUeftion  and 
are  essential  to  any  one  who  may 
wish  to  refer  to  the  various  lots  in 
their  most  detailed  form. 

The  examination  of  catalogues 
which  are  apparently  of  the  same 
issue  occasionally  reveals  minor  dif- 
ferences, but  none  of  sufficient  im- 
portance to  warrant  regarding  them 
as  separate  issues.  These  variations 
may  have  been  caused  in  some  in- 
stances by  the  detedion  and  correc- 
tion 


^c  57  y^ 

tion  of  an  obvious,  but  previously 
overlooked,  error  while  the  sheets 
v^ere  coming  off  the  press. 

In  other  cases  the  slight  variation 
is  undoubtedly  due  to  a  broken  letter 
or  the  dropping  out  of  a  letter  or  nu- 
meral from  the  form.  One  fad  soon 
becomes  apparent.  The  greater  part 
of  the  variations  and  changes  occur 
in  the  first  eight  days.  Indeed  this 
might  almost  be  narrow^ed  down  to 
the  first  six  days.  Titles  of  books  in 
foreign  languages,  particularly  the 
classics,  show  the  greatest  number  of 
inaccuracies  in  description.  Doubt- 
less they  would  be  detefted  by  a  larg- 
er number  of  readers  than  errors  in 
the  description  of  china,  paintings 
or  curios,  and  criticism  may  easily 

have 


have  been  more  centered  on  this  por- 
tion of  the  work. 

The  changes  in  the  last  sixteen 
days  come  about  largely  through  the 
occasional  addition  of  extra  lots  and 
the  correction  of  a  few  obvious  er- 
rors, as,  for  instance,  the  substitu- 
tion of  the  correct  w^ord  ^Faenza'  for 
'Faenna.'  It  seems  possible  that  in 
this  portion  of  the  catalogue  a  larger 
number  of  sheets  were  run  off  the 
same  form  without  corrections  than 
in  the  first  part.  And  also  that  a  few 
of  the  discrepancies  in  the  catalogues 
may  have  been  occasioned  by  bind- 
ing up  sheets  of  an  earlier  issue  of 
the  last  part  with  those  of  later  and 
corrected  impressions  of  the  first 
part. 

It 


It  is  obvious  that  the  deduftions 
here  made,  and  the  classification  of 
the  various  issues,  may  be  modified 
by  the  examination  of  a  still  larger 
number  of  catalogues  as  opportunity 
offers,  but  it  does  not  seem  probable 
that  any  material  changes  will  be 
made  thereby. 


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'BI'BLIOgj^AT//r 


descriptive  Catalogues 

« 

I 

CATALOGUE  of  Pidturcs  and  Drawings 
in  the  Holbein-Chamber,  at  Straw- 
berry-Hill. MDCCLX. 

Small  od:avo,  4^  by  7^/^  inches,  pages  8, 
sewn,  uncut.  Title  on  first  page. 

2 

Picftures,  Curiosities,  ^c.  in  The  Cabinet  of 
Enamels  and  Miniatures,  and  in  The  Glass 
Cases  on  each  Side  of  it. 

Quarto,  7^  ^Y  9%  inches,  pages  1 8,  uncut; 
page-numbers  in  brackets  at  top  of  page  in 
centre.  Bluish  gray  wrappers.  Title  printed 
onfirst  page  of  cover.  No  date  (i  773- 1 774  ?). 

Curiosities 


(^<^  62  ^y<^ 

3 

Curiosities  in  the  Glass  Closet  in  the  Great 
Bedchamber. 

Quarto,  7^  by  9^  inches,  pages  4,  uncut; 
page-numbers  in  brackets  at  top  of  page  in 
centre.  Bluish  gray  wrappers.  Title  printed 
on  first  page  of  cover.  Nodate(  1 773-1 774?). 

A  Description  of  the  Villa  of  Horace  Wal~ 
pole,  Youngest  Son  of  Sir  Robert  Walpole 
Earl  of  Orford,  at  Strawberry-Hill,  near 
Twickenham.  With  an  Inventory  of  the 
Furniture,  Pictures,  Curiosities,  &c.  Straw- 
berry-Hill: Printed  by  Thomas  Kirgate, 
M.DCC.LXXIV. 

Small  quarto, 6  J^  by  9  inches, cut.  Half-title, 
I  leaf  (with  view  of  Strawberry  Hill  first  used 
on  title-page  of  Life  ofSdwardLordHerbert 

*  Kirgate' s  sale  catalogue,  London  1 8 1  o,  has  this  item : — 
*Lot  410.  [Description  of  the  Villa  at  Strawberry  Hill]  for 
shewing  the  House,  very  scarce. ' 

This  is  the  catalogue  of  65  pages,  referred  to  on  page  i  o  as 
being  probably  a  partial  set  of  sheets  from  the  1774  T)escrip- 
tion  and  intended  only  for  an  exhibition  catalogue. 

of 


^  63  y^ 

of  Cher  bury,  1 764). Title-page,  i  leaf.  Pp.  1 20 
(last  page  blank).  Appendix,  1 21-145.  List 
of  the  Books  Printed  at  Strawberry-Hill, 

146-148  (last  page  blank).  Additions  since 
the  Appendix,  149-152.  More  Additions, 

153-158.  100  copies,  6  on  large  paper. 

5 

A  Description  of  the  Villa  of  Mr.  Horace 
Walpole,  Youngest  Son  of  Sir  Robert  Wal- 
pole  Earl  of  Orford,  at  Strawberry-Hill  near 
Twickenham,  Middlesex.  With  an  Inven- 
tory of  the  Furniture,  Pidtures,  Curiosities, 
&c.  Strawberry-Hill:  Printed  by  Thomas 
Kirgate,  MDCCLXXXIV 

Royal  quarto,  9^^  by  12  inches,  uncut.Title- 
page,  I  leaf.  Preface  i-iv.  Pp.  88.  Appendix, 
89-92.  Curiosities  added  since  this  Bookwas 
compleated,  93-94.  More  Additions,  95-96. 
Plates,  including  frontispiece,  27.  At  end 
of  Preface,  Walpole's  crest  and  motto  as  it 
appears  on  title-pages  of  Vols.  I.  and  II.  of 
^Anecdotes  ofT'ainting,  both  first  and  second 
editions.  200  copies. 


Sale 


Sale  Catalogues 

I. 

TRAWBERRY  HiLL,  thcrenowncd  seat 
of  Horace  Walpole. 

Mr.  George  Robins  is  honoured  by  having 
been  seled:ed  by  the  Earl  of  Waldegrave, 
to  sell  by  public  competition,  the  valuable 
contents  of  Strawberry  Hill,  and  it  may 
fearlessly  be  proclaimed  as  the  most  dis- 
tinguished gem  that  has  ever  adorned  the 
Annals  of  Auctions. 

It  is  definitely  fixed  for  Monday,  the  25th 
Day  of  April,  1 842,  and  tw^enty  three  fol- 
lowing days  (Sundays  excepted),  and  within 
will  be  found  a  repast  for  the  Lovers  of  Lit- 
erature and  the  Fine  Arts,  of  which  bygone 
days  furnish  no  previous  example,  and  it 
would  be  vain  to  contemplate  it  in  times  to 
come. 

The  Catalogue  (at  7s.  each)  will  admit 
Four  Persons  to  the  Public  View,  and  be  a 
passport  to  the  Purchaser  throughout  the 

Sale; 


^  65  ys^ 

Sale ;  they  may  be  had  at "  Galignani's  Jour- 
nal" in  Paris;  of  Mr.  I.  A.  G.  Weigel,  of 
Leipsic;  at  Strawberry  Hill;  at  the  Auction 
Mart ;  and  at  Mr.  George  Robins'  offices, 
Co  vent  Garden.  The  Private  view  will  com- 
mence on  the  28th  Day  of  March,  and  the 
Public  will  be  admitted  on  Monday,  April 
4th. 

Quarto,  8  by  10%  inches,  green  wrappers. 
Portrait.  Half-title,  i  leaf.  Title-page,  iii. 
Conditions  of  sale,  iv.  Prefatory  Remarks, 
v-xxi.  Arrangement  of  the  Audion,  xxii- 
xxiv.  1-67, 68  blank,  Preliminary  Remarks, 
69-71,  72-25o=xxiv-|-  250  pages. 
On  page  250,  *Note. — Some  inaccuracies 
will  be  discovered  in  the  Catalogue,  arising 
from  a  want  of  sufficient  time  for  its  exami- 
nation, in  order  to  be  prepared  by  the  time 
it  was  originally  announced;  these  errors  will 
be  carefully  redified  in  the  Second  Edition, 
a  small  portion  of  which  will  be  printed  on 
large  paper.' 

II. 

Title-page  same  as  I.  but  with  the  addition 
after  the  words*  Co  vent  Garden,'  of  the  fol- 
lowing; 


lowing;  —  *A  few  copies  are  printed  upon 

large  paper,  at  12s.  each.' 

Quarto,  8  by  10  inches,  pink  wrappers.  Por- 
trait, i-xxi  v.  1-67,68  blank.  Preliminary  Re- 
marks, 69-71,  72-25o=xxiv  +  25o  pages. 
On  page  250,  Note  as  in  I. 
Identification :  Advertisement  of  large-paper 
copies  on  title-page;  note  on  page  250;  last 
lot  on  page  112  numbered  156;  without  trans- 
position of  text  at  pages  186-187  as  found 
in  III. 

III. 

Title-page  same  as  II. 

Quarto,  8^  by  10%  inches,  blue  wrappers. 
Portrait,  i-xxiv.  1-67,68  blank,  PreHminary 
Remarks,  69-7 1, 72-25o=xxiv-f- 250  pages. 
On  page  250,  Note  as  in  I. 
Identification :  Last  lot  on  page  73  numbered 
29  through  error,  should  be  26;  lacks  head- 
ing 'Miscellaneous',  page  130;  transposi- 
tion of  text,  pages  186-187,  the  Nineteenth 
days'  sale  beginning  on  page  186,  the  Eigh- 
teenth days'  sale  ending  on  page  187. 

IV. 

Title-page  same  as  I.  with  the  exception 

of 


of  substitution  of  words  *(at  12s.  each)*  for 

*(at  7s.  each).* 

Large-paper  copy, folio,  9  ^  by  1 2  ^  inches, 
gray  wrappers. Portrait,  i-xxiv.  1-54,53  *,54*, 
5  5-68,67*,68*, Preliminary  Remarks,69-7 1, 
72-25o=xxiv4-254  pages. 
Identification:  inserted  pages  67*,  68*. 

V. 

Title-page  same  as  II. 

Quarto,  8  by  10^  inches,  gray  wrappers. 
Portrait,  i-xxiv.  1-54,53*, 54*, 55-68, Prelim- 
inary Remarks,  69-71, 7  2-250 =xxiv-[- 252 
pages. 

Identification:  Inserted  pages  53*,  54*;with- 
out  inserts  67*,  68*. 

VI.* 

Title-page  same  as  II. 

Quarto,  8  %  by  10^  inches,  pink  wrappers. 
Portrait,  i-xxiv.  1-86,  87  blank,  notice  of 

*An advertisement  in  the  TViVz^j,  April  1 8, 1 842  mentions  a 
catalogue  covering  only  the  portion  of  the  sale  devoted  to  the 
books,  April  25-30.  This  was  probably  a  limited  catalogue 
of  eighty-six  pages  of  text,  describing  the  books  w^ith  greater 
accuracy  and  detail  than  any  of  the  earlier  issues,  and  corre- 
sponding to  pages  1-86  in  catalogues  VI.  and  VII. 

deferred 


deferred  sale  of  print  colledion,  88,  89-90, 
97-250=xxivH-244  pages. 
Identification:  Small-paper  copy;  notice  of 
deferred  sale  of  prints,  page  8  8 ;  absence  of 
pages  91-96. 

VII. 

Title-page  same  as  II. 

Large-paper  copy,  folio,  91^  by  12  inches, 
pink  wrappers.  Portrait,  i-xxiv.  1-86,  87 
blank,  notice  of  deferred  sale  of  print  col- 
ledion,88,89-90,97-25o=xxiv  + 244  pages. 
Identification:  Large-paper  copy;  notice  of 
deferred  sale  of  prints,  page  8  8 ;  absence  of 
pages  91-96. 

VIII. 

The  CoUeftion  of  Rare  Prints  &  Illustrated 
Works  removed  from  Strawberry  Hill  for 
sale  in  London. 

A  Catalogue  of  the  extensive  and  most 
valuable  Collection  of  Engraved  Portraits 
of  the  most  illustrious  and  other  eminent 
British  Characters  that  figure  in  the  Annals 
of  History  and  Biography,  —  [27  lines]  — 
numerous  Manuscripts  and  Books  applying 

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to  the  Fine  Arts,  &c.,  &c.,  as  originally  col- 
ledted  by  Horace  Walpole,  Earl  of  Orford ; 
which  will  be  sold  by  audtion,  by  Mr.  George 
Robins,  at  his  Great  Rooms  in  Covent  Gar- 
den, on  Monday,  the  13th  day  of  June,  1842, 
and  nine  following  days  (Sunday  excepted), 
commencing  at  one  o'clock  precisely  each 
day. 

The  whole  will  be  open  for  inspedlion  on 
Monday,  June  6th,  and  during  the  week,  and 
Catalogues  had  (at  2s.  6d.  each)  at  Mr.  Geo. 
Robins'  offices  in  Covent  Garden. 

Quarto,  Sj4  by  10%  inches,  brown  wrap- 
pers. Title-page,  i.  Conditions  of  sale,  ii. 
Address,iii,iv.  Order  of  eachday'ssale,v,vi. 
3-i3i=vi-|-i29  pages. 

The  color  of  the  wrappers  of  the  copies  de- 
scribed is  given  as  a  matter  of  possible  interest. 
It  is  not  an  infallible  guide  to  the  issue,  as  the 
wrappers  of  similar  issues  sometimes  vary  in 
color.  All  the  catalogues  were  printed  by  Smith 
and  Robins,  King  Street,  Long  Acre.  Each  has 
a  shortened  title  on  the  cover,  with  a  facsimile 
of  the  signature  of  George  Robins.  This  title 

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is  printed  in  a  device  designed  by  Delamotte, 
4/^6  by  59^6  inches, which  was  also  utilized  for 
a  special  card  of  admission  to  the  private  view 
at  Strawberry  Hill.  The  short  title  of  cata- 
logues I.-VII.  is/ A  Catalogue  of  the  Contents 
of  Strawberry  Hill*;  of  catalogue  VIII.  is,  'A 
Catalogue  of  the  collection  of  Scarce  Prints, 
removed  from  Strawberry  Hill.' 

IX. 

zAedes  Strawberrianae, 

Names  of  Purchasers  and  the  Prices  to  the 
Sale  Catalogue  of  the  choice  Collections 
of  Art  and  Virtu,  at  Strawberry-Hill  Villa, 
formed  by  Horace  Walpole,  Earl  of  Orford. 
[quotation]  [seal]  London:  printed  for  J. 
H.  Burn,  102,  St.  Martin's  Lane ;  and  may 
be  had  of  all  Booksellers,  and  Dealers  in 
Antique  Furniture,  Picture  Galleries  and 
Repositories.  Price  seven  shillings  and  six- 
pence. 

Quarto  8  ^  by  1 1 J^  inches,  brown  wrappers. 
Apology  for  Strawberry  Hill,  signed  *  Hor. 
Walpole,*  I  leaf.  Pp.  1-58. Title  as  above  on 
cover.  Shortened  title  on  page  i .  Records  the 

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entire  twenty-four  days'  sales.  Twenty-five 
copies,  on  large  royal  quarto,  were  issued  at 
fifteen  shillings. 

The 'Apology for  Strawberry  Hiir  is  rather 
ingeniously  construded  by  welding  together 
detached  sentences  from  Walpole's  preface  to 
the  1784  edition  of  the  Description  of  Straw- 
berry Hill. 

X. 

oyfedes  Strawberrianae. 

Names  of  Purchasers  and  the  Prices  to  the 
Detailed  Sale  Catalogue  of  the  Collection 
of  early  Drawings,  Etchings,  and  Prints,  En- 
graved Portraits  of  eminent  British  Char- 
acters, Drawings  and  rare  Reproductions  of 
Hogarth,  Manuscripts  and  Works  relative 
to  the  Fine  Arts ;  withdrawn  from  Straw- 
berry-Hill for  sale  in  London. 

Granger  founded  the  materiel  of  \i\^  Bio- 
graphical History  of  England,  on  the  Col- 
lections of  Engraved  British  Portraits,in  the 
possessionofHoraceWalpole at  Strawberry- 
Hill;  andof  James  West.  The  Catalogue 

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of  Engraved  British  Portraits,  methodically 
disposed  in  Classes,  by  Anthony  Wilson,  un- 
der the  assumed  name  of  Henry  Bromley 
1 793 ;  was  an  arranged  Catalogue  of  Wal- 
pole's  Colled:ion,  with  additions;  in  which 
all  the  unique  or  rare  conditioned  Prints  at 
Strawberry-Hill  are  distincStly  traced,  on 
reference,  [seal]  The  names  of  Purchasers, 
and  the  Prices,  to  the  Twenty-four  days' 
Sale-Catalogueof  Pictures,  Miniatures,  and 
other  Rarities  at  Strawberry-Hill,  forms  a 
distindl  publication,  price  seven  shillings 
and  sixpence.  Twenty -five  Copies,  on  large 
royal  quarto,  price  Fifteen  Shillings.  Lon- 
don: Printed  for  J.  H.  Burn,  102,  St.  Mar- 
tin's Lane.  Impression  limited  to  fifty  copies. 
Price  three  shillings. 

Quarto,  8  5^  by  11 J^  inches,  brown  wrappers. 
Pp.  1-20.  Title  as  above  on  cover.  Short- 
ened title  on  page  i .  Records  the  ten  days' 
sale  only. 


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